happy holga snaps

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So here's my first attempt at playing with a Holga, after discovering my newfound obsession with lomographic cameras. I used 60mm film for what I thought would result in some nice square format negatives, but ended up with some crazy overlapping instead, as the film counter corresponds with 35mm film. So in all, I ended up with mostly underexposed, overlapped and abstract images. And a few light bleeds through the camera back too (I think?).
In my defense though the instruction manual that came it was for a completely different camera!
The inbuilt colour flashes (red,yellow,blue or white) are great fun, I took a liking to the blue in particular, and there's often a dreamy feel provided by short depth of field. This was fun, more experiments coming soon!

The Plot Thickens-Final Images

"Photographs are not narratives in themselves, but elements of narrative within durative situations" - Peter Wollen

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Thank You to everyone who helped me out!
Alex Lovell-Smith
Tim Nixon
Max Oettli
Rachel Gillies
Allan Cox
John Nixon
Arthur Hlavac-Green
Dana Lumsden
Ian Gillespie
David Slacko
Julia Johnstone
Jade Muirhead
Nui Noble
Polly Yeats

LiGHTBOX [play in the dark]

Alex and I at the opening of our 3rd year BFA photography exhibition, "LiGHTBOX" showcasing a series of work from each of us. Our shared interest in the technical aspect of artificial lighting, and use of the darkness is what inspired us to exhibit together.

View Alex's work at www.alorxphotography.blogspot.com
Stay tuned, my final works on here soon!

Bronica September 19

Images as shot: kinda distorted and weird colours. All 8sec and F4.5

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16:9 Cinematic Ritual

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Time is disrupted and non-linear, characters move within each image.
The cinematic aspect is created through the interaction (or deliberate disconnection) of characters. We do not know who the characters are, but we do know the story they are telling because we have seen it all before. The images contain visual elements often associated with a scene in a film. The layered motion; a scene of transcendence and a new reality lying beyond the ordinary range of perception. It rests in the Sublime, a colour crazy funeral, the underlying feeling not of dying, but of loss and remembrance.
I'm looking at other moments which have a generic and often cliche way of being represented in cinema.

Night time antics

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Lately I've been going out at night and having a bit of experimental fun with off-camera flashes. Especially the use of coloured glass filters to provide big chunks of vibrant colour (mostly green and blue) and illuminate people and objects in awesome ways.

Sunday night was a bit of a trial run, going into a field and getting used to the idea of 'painting with a flash' It gives crazy ghostlike effects, and multiple layering, what i found quite cool was the tone in the sky, the slow shutter speed allowed even for the cloud movement, and it has this lightness to it almost as if it were daytime instead of night.

This was about a 3 minute exposure on f11:


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And another image from sunday, this time the trees in Tim and Ian's garden. I sat between the two trees and lit up each side of the tress, then up the outsides of the trees, and a small piece of grass on the right hand side. The street lit behind also casts strands of light along the grass right to the foreground Quite mystical I thought:


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Last night's shoot was at Logan park, a beautifully warm night with a big moon (got a bit of moonflare in a few images) and a slight breeze.
I took a Bronica 6x6 and the D80, as well as a range of single firing flashes and one on burst mode (this was used to light up the flowers when thrown in the air.) as well a hang-picked selection of excellent models and button pushers.

I ran around with a flash and some glass filters, lighting up different scenes, then moving people into new spots and flashing them again. The result is the composed montage of situation really. With a cinematic quality, it became a film, and I was the director.
It was interesting, and the more I continued, the more I felt as though what I was doing was created layers in reality, instead of in photoshop. It was a manipulation of time and space within the camera.


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